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SIERRA Verification Module: Encore User Guide ? Version 4.40

Copps, Kevin D.; Carnes, Brian C.

e Encore soware package is both a stand-alone application and a soware library. is guide explains the syntax of Encore input, provides examples, and is a comprehensive catalog of the Encore commands. Acting as a stand-alone application, Encore provides utilities for reading solutions from les and enables solution verication, postprocessing, eld transfers, and basic mesh renement. Acting as a soware library, Encore is a component of the uid, thermal, and solid modeling applications in the Sierra Mechanics suite. As a library, Encore provides the enclosing modeling application a superset of the stand-alone capabilities--enabled by application specic information--including physics specic postprocessors and adaptive mesh renement.